Djk,
Generally for amounts in thousands it's far safer to avoid comma usage completely and use spaces.
Ahh, now we are three (you, me, Hutch) who agree on this
There's also a weird convention in Ireland that "Euro" and "Cent" have no plural (i.e. "2 euro and 15cent, not 2 euros and 15 cents). Does that apply elsewhere too?
This is indeed the official way throughout Europe. I think the EU has said that it doesn't care what people use, but suggest this official form.
Also the position of the Euro Symbol (?) ... We always put £ before the amount but many other countries put their symbol after the amount and are continuing to write Euro prices the same way e.g. 2,99 E(?)
The Euro symbol should be treated just like £ and $. However, if you are writing 'Euro' it should be after.
Pauluk,
In English, 5:30 would be "half past five," but I think the Germans phrase it as "half before six" or something like that.
Swedes use the latter form. 5.30 (or 17.30
) is "halv sex", as you are halfway to six. It gets a bit more complex with 5.25, "fem i halv sex", literally meaning "five in half six"
I had no idea that there was a UK keyboard. Why on earth did someone invent such a thing?
Swedish keyboards have the less commonly used keys like colon, question mark and backslash in other positions than the US keyboard. A PITA when you ran DOS and DOS-based software which often forced the use of the US keyboard. Murphys law dictated that you always pushed the wrong key.
I once wrote an e-mail in a Canadian internet-café, using the alt key + number to get the Swedish characters. It went just fine until I mistyped the number for the last character and the e-mail was deleted.